5001 quotes by artists for you to enjoy

If it's just brushstrokes wrestling around, it isn't much of a picture book, is it? There still has to be a picture. And maybe it needs to be a picture of a dog named Daisy or a little girl riding a bike. So I have to be careful before I get too carried away in the manner itself. Chris Raschka

Needs Book Dog Girl Picture Before Too Carried Be Careful Wrestling Picture Book Named Around Still Itself Get Maybe Just Little Little Girl Bike Manner Much Riding Away Daisy Careful

For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever you need illustrations that are inert, suffocating and dark, I know how to do them. Chris Raschka

Time You Dark Long Long Time Illustrations Drawings Know How Were Achieving Them Ever Suffocating Brilliantly Need

As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing. Chris Riddell

Digital Illustration Dread High Android Kindle Tablet Computers Screens Grip Growing Bright Challenged Publishing Need Resolution

In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like never before. The austere 'prayer book' paper that permitted the space for Shepard's illustrations to Pepys' diaries is now being recreated in the digital era. Chris Riddell

When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions. Chris Riddell

Work Art Sometimes School Met Illustrations Drawings Response Visiting Enthusiastic Polite Left Art School Them Showing Search Publishers

Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance. Chris Riddell

Great Chemistry Living Other Only Blake He Talent Greatest Began Up Worked Special Brilliance Illustrator Britain

I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story. Chris Riddell

The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes. Chris Riddell

Love Writing Something Writes Writing Process Process Who Illustrator

I'm calling myself 'The Doodler,' and with the simple addition of a small burglar's mask, I achieve utter anonymity. Chris Riddell

Myself Simple Achieve Mask Addition Small Anonymity Calling Burglar Utter

I want to put the joy of creativity, of drawing every day, of having a go and being surprised at what one can achieve with just a pencil and an idea at the heart of my term as laureate. I want to make sure people have fun whilst addressing fundamental issues I care about passionately. Chris Riddell

Day Heart Creativity Every Day People Have Fun Joy Achieve Care Every Addressing Pencil Drawing Laureate About Having Put Idea Term Make Sure Go Issues Passionately Surprised Just Being Want Whilst Fun Fundamental

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed. Chris Ware

Music Art Respect Jazz Way About Similar Emotion Highly Performed Built Comics Lot Art Forms Same Whereas Forms Amount

The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template. Chris Ware

Mind First Looking Out Window Like Look First Thing Been Years Up Imprinted Get Same Six The First Thing Thing Image

Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children. Chris Ware

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included. Chris Ware

Reading Books Kid Television Adjunct Collected Magazines Only Majority Concern Mostly Comic Material Comic Books Central Interested Included

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures. Chris Ware

Myself Think Cartoonist Write Pictures Story Illustrate Illustrator

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness. Chris Ware

Books About Like Most Afford Anybody Them Thing Innate

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist. Chris Ware

Mother About Always Encouraging Artist Wanting

When I was 11 years old, I thought, 'All I really wanna be able to do is my own comic book,' and I'm doing it. I don't have any other real ambitions. I have nothing to conquer at all. Chris Ware

Book Old Thought Ambition Own Nothing Other Able My Own Comic Comic Book Real Doing Years Any Wanna Really Conquer

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means. Chris Ware

Alone Myself Solitude Whatever Nothing Older Those Though More Know Likely Also Periods Occasionally Gotten False Than Nostalgia Wanted Nostalgic Realize Means Found Earlier

Quotes by Artists